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July 2016

The FATF has been strictly controlling and monitoring the situation in Tajikistan since 2007. The reason for this was the absence of legislatively fixed measures for obstruction of money laundering and terrorist financing. In 2013, such measures were adopted by introduction of criminal responsibility for the crimes indicated above.

The amendments to the Basic Law of Kyrgyzstan – the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic – have become available to the public through publication on the website of the Jogorku Kenesh. The proposal to introduce such amendments was put forward by several Mps: Chynybay Tursunbekov, Isa Omurkulov, Omurbek Babanov, Kanat Isaev, Bakyt Torobaev, Altynbek Sulaimanov and others. In favor of the need for reforms, the deputies provide the following arguments:

The administration of East Kazakhstan Province is actively looking for new possibilities of filling the budget and improving the economic situation in the region. The latest initiative of the local akimat involves attracting foreign – particularly, Chinese – investors to the harvesting and processing of timber. However, the initiative has caused a mixed reaction among the public and among the senior management.

Tajikistan annually loses more than a quarter of the total electricity generated due to idle discharges of water at the country's large hydropower plants (HPP). Earlier this week, the information has been reported by Usmonali Usmonzoda, Minister of Energy and Water Resources of the Republic.

According to Usmonzoda, in 2016, the losses will exceed 4 billion kilowatt-hours. The HPPs annually produce about 16.5 billion kilowatt-hours, which are not enough for Tajikistan: in winter, the electricity deficit is more than 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours.

In Aktobe Province, more than 200 supporters of radical Islamism went back to the traditional religion in H1 2016, as reported by the information center “Aktobe Akparat.”

The authorities of Aktobe Province pay special attention to prevention of extremism and terrorism among the population. To prevent the spread of radical movements, they use a variety of methods, including promotion of religious literacy among the population of Kazakhstan. This approach facilitates the return of extremist adherents to the origins of traditional Islam.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan will conduct training of farmers in all regions of the country in the framework of the budget program. The government has allocated about KZT1 billion for organization of the specialized seminars.

The three major automobile plants in Kazakhstan began to lose ground in early 2016. The collapse of production performance occurred in Q1. In comparison with the corresponding period of 2015, the production indicators amounted to 85.8 percent for trucks and only 7.8 percent for passenger vehicles.

The meeting of Foreign Affairs Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulazizp Kamilov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Dzhubeyr was held on July 27, during a business visit of the Uzbek delegation to the Kingdom. This is stated on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

On July 27, the press service of the Ministry of Economy of Kazakhstan reported that the republic is accepted into the Competition Committee under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This decision was adopted as a result of the voting that took place on June 17. At the last stage, Kazakhstan's competitors were the Philippines and Croatia.